Django Abstract User - how to implement it with allauth

Question

I don't have the standard Django User model to rely on. How would you combine both, AbstractUser and Allauth. Should I build out the views first "SignUpView.as_view" or should I work out how how the path "accounts/" should tie in with allauth?

I was attempting to adapt a functioning e-commerce site by removing/including aspects, one of these adaptations was a Custom User model.

I'm following this tutorial:

https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/tutorial/2018/01/18/how-to-implement-multiple-user-types-with-django.html

It's excellent, just not sure how to accomodate allauth, which must be in this project due to the ease of its social login.

urls.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static


urlpatterns = [
    path('', include('home.urls')),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('accounts/', include('allauth.urls')),
    path('projects/', include('projects.urls')),
    # path('profiles/', include('profiles.urls')),
    # path('accounts/signup/', users.SignUpView.as_view(), name='signup'),
    # path('accounts/signup/volunteer/', volunteers.VolunteerSignUpView.as_view(), name='volunteer_signup'),
    # path('accounts/signup/organisation/', organisations.OrganisationsSignUpView.as_view(), name='organisation_signup'),
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

models.py

from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
from django.db import models
from django.utils.html import escape, mark_safe


class User(AbstractUser):
    is_volunteer = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    is_organisation = models.BooleanField(default=False)



class Volunteer(models.Model):
   
    user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, primary_key=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.user.username

Here's my settings.py file

settings.py

ALLOWED_HOSTS = []


# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'allauth',
    'allauth.account',
    'allauth.socialaccount',
    'allauth.socialaccount.providers.linkedin_oauth2',
    'home',
    'projects',
    'profiles' , 

    # Other
    'crispy_forms',

]

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]

ROOT_URLCONF = 'projectSaasy.urls'

CRISPY_TEMPLATE_PACK = 'bootstrap4'

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [
            os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),
            os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates', 'allauth'), 
        ],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
            'builtins': [
                'crispy_forms.templatetags.crispy_forms_tags',
                'crispy_forms.templatetags.crispy_forms_field',
            ]
        },
    },
]

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [
    
    # Needed to login by username in Django admin, regardless of `allauth`
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',

    # `allauth` specific authentication methods, such as login by e-mail
    'allauth.account.auth_backends.AuthenticationBackend',
    
]

SITE_ID = 1

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'

ACCOUNT_AUTHENTICATION_METHOD = 'username_email'
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_REQUIRED = True
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_VERIFICATION = 'mandatory'
ACCOUNT_SIGNUP_EMAIL_ENTER_TWICE = True
ACCOUNT_USERNAME_MIN_LENGTH = 4
LOGIN_URL = '/accounts/login/'
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/'

# Social accounts
# This is the most helpful guide: 
# https://python.plainenglish.io/why-you-should-let-the-user-to-authenticate-with-social-accounts-df30b0ba4793

SOCIALACCOUNT_PROVIDERS = {
    'linkedin': {
        'SCOPE': [
            'r_basicprofile',
            'r_emailaddress'
        ],
        'PROFILE_FIELDS': [
            'id',
            'first-name',
            'last-name',
            'email-address',
            'picture-url',
            'public-profile-url',
        ]
    }
}

# This allows social sign-up to be instantaneous (change back to "True")
SOCIALACCOUNT_AUTO_SIGNUP = True


WSGI_APPLICATION = 'projectSaasy.wsgi.application'


# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/settings/#databases

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': BASE_DIR / 'db.sqlite3',
    }
}

AUTH_USER_MODEL = "profiles.User"


# Password validation
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators

AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
    },
]


# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/topics/i18n/

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True


# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/howto/static-files/

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),)

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')

# Default primary key field type
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/settings/#default-auto-field

DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD = 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'

Here's the forms.py

forms.py

from django import forms
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
from django.db import transaction

from profiles.models import Volunteer, User

class VolunteerSignUpForm(UserCreationForm):

    class Meta(UserCreationForm.Meta):
        model = User

    @transaction.atomic
    def save(self):
        user = super().save(commit=False)
        user.is_volunteer = True
        user.save()
        volunteer = Volunteer.objects.create(user=user)
        volunteer.interests.add(*self.cleaned_data.get('interests'))
        return user

And the views.py

views.py

from django.contrib.auth import login
from django.shortcuts import redirect
from django.views.generic import CreateView

from .forms import VolunteerSignUpForm
from .models import User

class VolunteerSignUpView(CreateView):
    model = User
    form_class = VolunteerSignUpForm
    template_name = 'registration/signup_form.html'

djangodeveloper · Answer 1 · 2021-05-19T14:54:59.830

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if your signal is not working well then you can use the following signal functions separately:

@receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def create_profile(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
    if created:
        User.objects.create(user=instance)

@receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def save_profile(sender, instance, **kwargs):
    instance.user.save()

if still not working then you can create a separate file with the name of signals.py and copy and paste all my code written above. Regards Abubakar

edited May 19 '21 at 14:54

answered May 19 '21 at 14:11

djangodeveloper

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bill can you update your signals same as like mine? – djangodeveloper May 19 '21 at 14:45

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 25 '21 at 15:15

First delete your database and all migrations folder then do following changes

In your models.py, make few changes

from django.conf import settings

class Volunteer(models.Model):
   
    user = models.OneToOneField(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.CASCADE, primary_key=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.user.username

And register this model in admin.py

from django.contrib import admin

from .models import *

admin.site.register(User)

After doing following changes run following command

python manage.py makemigrations <your_app_name_in_which_AbstractUserModel_is_present>
python manage.py migrate

Django Abstract User - how to implement it with allauth

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